Kwaliteit van bewijs 4.38/5
Beoordelingsscore op acht dimensies volgens de kwaliteitsrubriek . Elke dimensie krijgt een score van 1 tot 5.
- D1 Verankering in bronnen
- 5/5
- D2 Autoriteit van bronnen
- 5/5
- D3 Rekenkunde
- 4/5
- D4 Onzekerheid
- 4/5
- D5 Bereik
- 4/5
- D6 Proza
- 4/5
- D7 Eerlijkheid over perceptie
- 4/5
- D8 Volledigheid van voorbehouden
- 5/5
A task scam recruits through an unsolicited text or WhatsApp message offering vague online work. The “job” is to complete repetitive actions in an app or web platform, liking videos or rating product images, with each click crediting a fake commission to an on-screen balance. The FTC describes tasks “often assigned in sets of forty,” with the promise of leveling up and the occasional “double task” that pays more. Early small payouts are real and build trust. The pivot comes when the platform asks the worker to deposit their own money, usually in cryptocurrency, to unlock the next set and withdraw the displayed earnings. The displayed earnings do not exist, and deposited money does not come back.
The reported scale grew sharply over 2024. The FTC’s Consumer Sentinel data showed task-scam reports rising from effectively zero in 2020 to about 5,000 in all of 2023, then to roughly 20,000 in the first half of 2024 alone. By that point task scams made up an estimated 38.8 percent of all job-scam reports, against 5.6 percent a year earlier. Reported losses to job scams overall topped $220 million in the first six months of 2024, and crypto losses to job scams reached about $41 million over the same period, roughly double the figure for all of 2023. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center tracks employment scams within its cryptocurrency totals, though the primary 2024 IC3 figures could not be verified here against machine-readable text.
These numbers are reports, not victims, and they describe a phenomenon that barely existed three years before the data was collected. The FTC states plainly that “the vast majority of frauds are not reported,” so the counts above are a floor of unknown depth. There is no published count of how many people use these platforms, which would be the denominator for any rate, and no victimization-prevalence survey isolates task scams from the broader online-scam category. A lifetime probability would require multiplying a single year of explosive-growth data across decades while guessing an underreporting factor and an exposed population, each of which would move the answer by more than an order of magnitude. The honest entry is the absence of a number, alongside the confirmed report counts and the deposit-in-crypto mechanism that defines the scam.
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[1] U.S. Federal Trade Commission — Paying to get paid: gamified job scams drive record losses Geverifieerd
Paying to get paid: gamified job scams drive record losses- Statistiek
~20,000 task-scam reports in H1 2024 vs ~5,000 in all of 2023; 38.8% of job-scam reports were task scams in H1 2024 (vs 5.6% in 2023, 1.6% in 2022, 0.6% in 2021, 0% in 2020); job-scam losses topped $220M in H1 2024; crypto losses to job scams ~$41M in H1 2024 vs ~$21M in all of 2023.- Fragment
“Reported losses to job scams increased more than threefold from 2020 to 2023 and, in just the first half of 2024, topped $220 million. Driving this trend are skyrocketing reports about gamified job scams, often called task scams. About 20,000 people reported these scams in the first half of the year, compared to about 5,000 in all of 2023. Since the vast majority of frauds are not reported, this likely reflects only a fraction of the actual harm.”
- Brongegevens van
- 2024-12-12
- Geraadpleegd
- 2026-06-13
- Verificatie
- Fragment onafhankelijk opnieuw opgehaald en woord voor woord bevestigd tegenover de geciteerde bron tijdens onze onderbouwingsaudit.
- Berekening
- Footnote [2] verbatim: task-scam shares are estimates from hand-coding a random sample of 500 job-scam reports per year (2,500 total), excluding reports without a narrative; the coded share was multiplied by total job-scam reports that year. Shares: 38.8% (H1 2024), 5.6% (2023), 1.6% (2022), 0.6% (2021), 0% (2020). Footnote [1] gives job-scam dollar losses: $223M (2024 through June), $286M (2023), $179M (2022), $131M (2021), $90M (2020). These are reported figures, not victimization-prevalence counts; the FTC states the vast majority of frauds go unreported, so no per-adult denominator can be derived.
- Onafhankelijkheid
- Primary FTC Consumer Sentinel analysis; the consumer alert and press-release sources below are FTC restatements of the same dataset, not independent.
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[2] U.S. Federal Trade Commission — Task scams create the illusion of making money Geverifieerd
Task scams create the illusion of making money- Statistiek
Describes the task-scam mechanism: unsolicited text/WhatsApp offer, repetitive 'tasks' with fake mounting commissions, then a demand to deposit the victim's own money (usually crypto) to unlock the next set and withdraw fake earnings, after which both the deposit and the fake earnings are lost.- Fragment
“At some point, the app or online platform will ask you to deposit your own money — usually in crypto — to complete your next set of tasks and to get your supposed (fake) earnings out of the app. But if you make the deposit, not only is your real money is gone, you'll never get those fake earnings.”
- Brongegevens van
- 2024-12-12
- Geraadpleegd
- 2026-06-13 · gearchiveerde kopie
- Verificatie
- Fragment onafhankelijk opnieuw opgehaald en woord voor woord bevestigd tegenover de geciteerde bron tijdens onze onderbouwingsaudit.
- Berekening
- Used for the mechanism description (deposit-in-crypto flip), not for any rate. No numerator/denominator extractable. Page is dated December 12, 2024 (URL path says 2024/11).
- Onafhankelijkheid
- FTC consumer-facing restatement of the same Spotlight analysis; not statistically independent of the Spotlight.
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[3] U.S. Federal Trade Commission — New FTC Data Show Skyrocketing Consumer Reports About Game-Like Online Job Scams
New FTC Data Show Skyrocketing Consumer Reports About Game-Like Online Job ScamsSee all 2 Likelier entries citing this source →
- Statistiek
Task-scam reports rose from zero in 2020 to 5,000 in 2023, then quadrupled to ~20,000 in H1 2024; task scams ~40% of 2024 job-scam reports; overall job-scam losses >$220M in H1 2024; crypto losses to job scams ~$41M in H1 2024.- Fragment
“Overall reported losses on job scams tripled from 2020 to 2023 and were more than $220 million in just the first six months of 2024. Task scams were estimated to account for nearly 40 percent of the 2024 job scam reports.”
- Brongegevens van
- 2024-12-12
- Geraadpleegd
- 2026-06-13
- Berekening
- Corroborates the Spotlight's report counts and loss figures verbatim. No prevalence denominator stated.
- Onafhankelijkheid
- FTC press release restating the Spotlight; not independent.
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[4] FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) — 2024 IC3 Annual Report (Internet Crime Report)
2024 IC3 Annual Report (Internet Crime Report)- Statistiek
Secondary summaries report 6,533 employment-scam complaints with ~$197.22M in losses within the 2024 cryptocurrency-nexus breakdown; total 2024 IC3 losses ~$16.6B. NOT independently confirmed from the primary PDF.- Fragment
“[Unable to extract verbatim text — the IC3 2024 report PDF is image-based and did not render machine-readable text via WebFetch or Playwright. The 6,533 complaints / $197.22M figure appears only in third-party summaries and was NOT verified against the primary document.]”
- Brongegevens van
- 2025-04-23
- Geraadpleegd
- 2026-06-13 · gearchiveerde kopie
- Berekening
- Listed for transparency as a corroborating-but-unverified pointer. Per the project's hard sourcing rule this source is NOT treated as confirmed and is NOT relied on for any claim; the entry stands on the three CONFIRMED FTC sources above.
- Onafhankelijkheid
- Independent of FTC (separate FBI complaint channel) but unverified at primary-source level.